My second day in New York was amazing! I will be sharing lots of photos and four vegan restaurant reviews in my next two posts, but I didn’t have time to write them before surgery. (See Part 1 for the background story.) Yesterday I was admitted to the hospital to get new breathing pacers:
I went to the surgical ICU after the pacers were done:
The top two incisions are where the electrodes were placed on my phrenic nerves. The two lower incisions are where the receivers were implanted:
Here is a diagram that shows the pacer components:
This is what the receivers and electrodes look like:
The receivers are a little bigger than a quarter:
I had an arterial line in my right wrist and an IV in each foot!
But, the lines are already out, and I will be discharged in a few hours!
Wow, I pray to God that all will go very well for you, and recovery will be quick but steady!
Bless you heaps.
Thank you, Raewyn! I really appreciate your prayers!
I hope and pray you are on the road to recovery.
Thank you, Marty! I have recovered from the surgery itself, but my left phrenic nerve was damaged during the surgery and my left diaphragm is paralyzed as a result. We hope that it will eventually recover, but I have to be on my ventilator most of the time until it does. I can use the right side of my pacer alone for a couple of hours at a time, but I am only breathing with one lung when I do. It is frustrating, but I am doing ok!